The Ice Dragon || Akatsuki no Yona fanfiction// Yona of the Dawn

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This man felt so familiar to me, but I couldn't exactly remember how I seemed to know him. The next words that came out from his mouth were like a slap on the face:

"Well you should" he said with a grin "it's Zeno, Tenshi-Kori-sama!"

Tenshi-Kori, the same name Hiryuu would call me in my dreams. Even though my stomach felt like unraveling, although my anxiety had been killing me for the past few days, when I saw that man everything around me disappeared. I knew inside of me that our fates had been tied up at one point, maybe in a past life. I knew I could trust him.

"That name..." I muttered under my breath, quietly because I didn't want anyone to hear me "how do you know that name?" I exclaimed walking up to him.

"Miss Kori you're sounding so weird today" The man, who I suppose was called Zeno said "but it must have been hard for you, after all these years!" he said while tears came out of his eyes as his arms embraced me tightly.

I was in shock. Was this man a lunatic? While I tried to judge him the hardest I could, another feeling took over me, I felt empathetic. I looked in to his eyes and saw all the lives he had lived in one. He must have suffered so much... I thought to myself.

"I visited you everyday while you were inside that tomb, waiting for the day Hiryuu would wake you again when he had taken his place in heaven" He said as he wiped away his tears "you were so selfish to leave me to wander around this world alone, though miss" he said with a smile, his eyes were still red.

"Murai!" Hak exclaimed, throwing Zeno to the ground and pulling me to stand behind him. He has his quandao ready for action.

"There's no need for that Hak" Jae-ha exclaimed with a chuckle "we've found our last dragon".

With that being said, Zeno's pendant broke in two, and he fell to the ground.

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"That man was so weird early today, huh Murai?" Yona said while peeling potatoes and putting them in to the soup we'd eat later at night. She had gotten used to the life outdoors, as did I, but I was happy to see that she was a fast learner. The little knowledge of cooking I had acquired from Haru had now been passed on to her and know both of us learn from Yoon.

He truly has been a mother to us all.

"Tenshi-Kori... The White Dragon villagers called you that also" Yona said perplexed but I shook it off.

"He was tired. Did you see the dirt on his face? He must have had a hard journey" I said while looking at where he was now. Yoon had laid him on a mattress we had traded a few days ago in Awa, he was taking care of him with Ki-Ja's assistance.

"Besides, he must have associated me with her because of my hair and his dragon syre bond" I complemented "we're not the same, Yona-chan" I finished while ruffling her hair.

"Yona, I'm so sorry I wasn't there for you" I said while a couple of tears rolled down my eyes "if I hadn't gotten mad, I would had been there for you" I said while resting my face in my palms, trying to hide away my fallen tears.

Yona then engulfed me in a hug and started twisting my hair, like we used to do when we were children.

"If you were there, Murai-chan, you wouldn't have been able to do anything" She said, trying her best to put out a smile "besides, I fought hard, you know? Remember, right? When we were kids, you always told me to fight back when the palace children would make fun of me and-" and with those last words being said, Yona fell in to tears.

She didn't cry like in the palace, you could hear her screaming from a far. These were silent tears.

Those tears were worse, I could be standing on the edge of the world and I would still hear them echoing in my mind.

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Hak's perspective

It's been a week since we've last been to Awa and killed the lord, six days since Yona got violated and five since Murai wouldn't dare look me in the eye after our kiss. We had fought over it and she was furious, she didn't understand why I had to step back.

What a wicked world.

All my life I had watched the princesa from a distance, never understanding why I wished to be with her, to protect her from suitors and make her go mad as I threw her favorite dolls away as a child.

I saw her dancing at her birthday party, she danced as if it would be her last night in her kingdom. She greeted everyone with grace, and the suitors who thought would had fooled her in to marriage were left begging at her feet for the chance of a dance.

Such a pleasure I was conceived a couple of months in the past.

But, of course, when everything, in it's own messed up way, started to fall in to place, another suitor had appeared.

How I wished it had been Soo-Won, like the bastard had always ran after the princess.

"Never believed in gods anyway" I said under my breath.

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